Harrison v. Ash

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the officers “reasonably responded to the substantial risk to [the inmate’s] health” when they summoned medical support
• finding that a nurse who was hired by a private medical company that contracted with a prison could be held liable under § 1983
• “[W]e find that the purposes of qualified immunity do not support the extension of the doctrine to nurses employed by a private medical provider.”
• “As an initial matter, it is undisputed that [d]efendant nurses are subject to suit under § 1983 because they acted ‘under color of state law.’”
• “Thus, to the extent that the denial of qualified immunity is based on a factual dispute, such a denial falls outside of the narrow jurisdiction of this Court.”
• “factual dispute[s]” “fall[] outside of the narrow jurisdiction of this Court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).